Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside the numbing, ambiguous grandiloquence of traditional diplomacy which made international dialogue sound remote and unreal. He spoke as no statesman had ever spoken before in international councils. He spoke, and his example made others speak, as though UNO were not a precarious assembly of many nations, but a parliament of respectable and genuine power. He spoke up to the Russians as a great many plain people in pubs and corner drugstores had often wanted to speak. Gasped one European delegate: "My God! We are playing chess, and Bevin is playing darts...
...scoffed at Tory demands in Parliament that the Sarawak State Council pass on her husband's proposal. "Poor darlings, don't they understand? The Sarawak people agree to anything the Raja wants. It's just a case of a few leading ones squatting on the verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...
...watched his disciple with peasant skepticism. "Mikolajczyk is no peasant," he once growled. "He has neither the peasant's character, nor his sense of humor, nor his bad habits." But the peasants dissented. They kept voting for their Poznan farmer; in 1930 they sent him to the Sejm (Parliament) in Warsaw. When Witos was forced into exile, Mikolajczyk took over as chief of the Peasant Party, the largest of prewar Poland...
...World War II Mikolajczyk fought again as a private, escaped from the military debacle to Hungary, thence to France. There President Ignace Paderewski made him Vice Premier of the Polish National Council, the Parliament of the Polish Government in Exile...
Asked Political Columnist A. J. Cummings in the News Chronicle: "Who gave the document to the editor of LIFE, and by what authority? And what are Parliament's rights. . . ? A question will certainly be asked in the House...